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hold his stick and victoriously looking at Raj with dancing eyes, led his grand-father to the bench and made him sit.
A tourist travelling from one of the western countries, was watching this incident with a camera hung over his neck. From the entire incident, he could understand everything excepting the language. With great amazement, the man lifting his shoulders exclaimed : "vow ! what a pleasure !" It will be a great surprise if this tourist, whose own two sons living in the same city, same country has never experienced such emotions, or has never seen such familial love in his own country, does not get flabbergasted.
This incident of familial love, a reflection of the great Indian family life-style, at Marine Drive, overshone the beauty and sparkle of the famous Queen's necklace, the popular area of Nariman Point.
. Whoever sees this exemplary incident, is absolutely stunned at seeing the good fortune of the grand-father and the affection of the two virtuous grand-children. But you cannot overlook the contribution of the second generation who have inculcated such high ideals and extended the magnificence of noble virtues in heredity, to their heirs. The picture is beautiful due to the artistic talent of the artist.
The high ideals of patriotism and the weightage to the principles governing child upbringing have no place in western culture and life-style. Children raised amidst crazy materialism and in the environment of result-oriented and absurd capitalism of their over-whelming consumption led empires, cannot see anything excepting cut-throat competition and uncontrolled consumption. They know only one language: money. These emotions and beliefs not only apply to the
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